DETAILS:262 pp, hardbound, 2006
AUTHOR: Thomas H. Thompson
ISBN: 1-892622-29-7
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Bakersfield and Kern City Directory 1899
Reprint of the 1899 Bakersfield and Kern City (East Bakersfield,) California city directory. It was Bakersfield’s first directory, listing business and residential names and addresses. Excellent reference book.
Bakersfield and Kern Picture Album
DETAILS: 96 pp., softbound, 2001.
AUTHOR: Chris Brewer and Don Pipkin
ISBN: 92622-13-0.
Bakersfield Fire Department Souvenir Edition-1906
This is a reprint of the 1906 Bakersfield Fire Department publication. The book has text with 52 photographs of Bakersfield street scenes and buildings.
Bakersfield Pastoral, Views of the Past
Bakersfield’s past is seen in this volume of historical photographs, many of which date from the 1880s.
Bakersfield Picture Album Volume 2
A second volume of wonderful historical photographs from Bakersfield's forgotten past with scenes of the city from the past. As with the first volume, this has become a classic photographic album. This volume shows photographs mostly from the early Twentieth Century...
El Camino Viejo á Los Angeles
Frank F. Latta delivered this story to the Kern County Historical Society as a program in the mid-1930.
Historic Kern County
Historic Kern County: An Illustrated History of Bakersfield and Kern County by Chris Brewer is a beautiful collection of photographs and artifacts of the historic past of Kern County, California.
History of Kern County
Wallace Elliot’s History of Kern County California was the first comprehensive history written on the county, first published in 1883. The book will be a welcome addition to any local history library. Western scholars and collectors, particularly those interested in...
Early History of Tulare County
Reprint of the rare History of Tulare County, California by historian Kathleen Small.
Hot Springs Country
Hot Springs Country, the third of eight books through which Bob Powers talks about his heartland, it is ample proof that thousands of other Americans enjoy sharing this world with him.
Kern River Country
Author and Historian Bob Powers continues the story of his homeland in Kern River Country.
Mooney’s Oak Grove Volume II
Mooney’s Oak Grove 1906-2013 studies the history of the Oak Groves as preserved by Michael Mooney.
North Fork Country
Bob Powers continues his look at the people in the Kern River Area.
AUTHOR: Bob Powers
Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches. 160 pp., hardbound, dw, 2003.
ISBN 1-892622-23-8.
PRICE: $35.00
Colonel Baker’s Field
Rare Baker family-lore is merged with historical research to recount an incredible time in our country’s history when pioneers reached beyond the impossible to achieve their dreams.
DETAILS: Colonel Baker’s Field by Judy Salamacha, Sandy Mittelsteadt, with Chris Brewer; Illustrator: Jody Salamacha-Hollier.
Publisher: Bear State Books, 2013.
ISBN 978-1-892622-50-1
Handbook of Yokuts Indians
Written by Frank F. Latta and originally published in 1949, the Handbook of the Yokuts Indians is considered by many historians and cultural anthropologists to be the single most important work on the lives and culture of the more than 60 tribes that made.
California Indian Folklore
First printed in 1936, California Indian Folklore was Frank Latta’s first work that specifically focused on the Native Americans of the San Joaquin Valley, describing the culture of the many tribes of the Yokuts.
The Killing of Jim McKinney
Notorious bad guy Jim McKinney went on a rampage in Bakersfield, California. This is his story.